Improvement in ooeset clasps



@nimh tatrs stnt @fitta .LUGIAN HILL, 0Fv NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 LAWSON M. HILL, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 62,848, dated March I2, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSET GLASPS.

TO ALL WI-IOM I T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, LUCIAN HILL, of North Brookleld, Worcester county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corset Claspsg and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon. In the drawings forming a part of these specicatious* Figure 1 represents a front view of a corset, showing my invention; and

Figure 2 is a detailed view of the clasps used in my arrangement. y

This invention consists of forming the clasps cfa corset in such a manner that the steel pieces, forming the outside stiieners along the edges of the corset, can. be removed when it is wished to wash the corset: Ordinarily the clasps or. fasteners of the corset are attached or form part ot' these stiffeners, and are placed suitable. distances apart, the hooks being on one side and the eyes on the other, and protrude'outside ofthe hem in which the stiifeners are confined. In this arrangement it is impossible to draw the stiffeners out withoutripping up the Whole hem, the. clasps, or hooks and eyes, preventing them from being moved up or`down. In my device, however, the stiifeners are formed of smooth pieces, without any attachment directly to them, but pass through the Shanks of the clasps which are let through the edges of the hem at suitable distances apart.

'In iig. 1, of the drawings, this is shown by the dotted lines showing the positions of the stiieners A A an clasps B B B 'the edges of the corset being brought together and hooked. In this, the stuff around the middle clasps is represented as torn away and revealing themanner in which the pieces A A pass through the clasps. When it is desired to remove these pieces it is only necessary to rip that small portion of a seam immediately above or below them, when they can be drawn out, leaving' the clasps in their places to be taken out afterward, In fig. 2 is shown an edge view of the clasps as hooked together, having the eyelets a a through their Shanks, through which the pieces A A pass when in the corset. In this is also shown n iy device for prcventing the clasps from coming unfastened when they are hooked. It consists of a small i'lat spring, Z), attached to the-shank of the hook and resting on the knob upon the same. This prevents the eye from getting over this -knob land becoming unfastened. The hook can also be formed by merely turning up the end instead of riveting on a knob as is usual. The advantagesI secure by thisv device are the readiness by which the stiifeners can be removed from. the stuft` forming the corset'when it is wished to wash the latter, or perform any monding operation in which the stines's would interfere. By the use of the spring b I prevent the Acorset from comingundone when. once fastened.

New, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The detachable clasp for corsets -herein described, consisting of the parts a a, and spring I), constructed as set forth.

L UcIAN HILL.

Witnesses MARY A. GREENE, J. E. GREENE. 

